Wash-boiler fountain



(ModeL) W. B ARTON.

Wash Boiler I'Ountain. A No. 240,003. Patented April 12,1881.

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the parts as to increase the force and size of PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM BARTON, OF NEWARK, NEW JEEsEY.

WASH-BOILER FOUNTAIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters,

Patent No. 240,003, dated April 12, 1881.

Application filed September 15, 1880. (ModeL) To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BARTON, of the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Im provementin Wash-BoilerFountains, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of machines which are set into ordinary wash-boilers, and which-cause rapid circulation of the water during the boiling of the clothes, and force a stream of water from the bottom of the boiler up over the top of the clothes.

The object of my invention is to so constructthe stream, and consequently the rapidity of the circulation of the body of water in the boiler; and to this end my invention consists in providing the base or heating-chamber with a chambered pipe connected with the discharge-pipe a-short distance above the heating-chamber; in providing the heating-chamber with a tubular heater, and in such a manner that the heating-chamber proper is divided into upper and lower compartments.

My invention further consists in the pecubinations.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of the apparatus placed inside of an ordinaryboiler, with a portion of the rim of the heatingchamber broken away to show the upper and lower compartments or spaces Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the heating-chamber. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the tubular heater; Fig. 4, a side or edge view of the tubular heater, showing the studs and the cut-off lip.

The heating-chamber A is made, preferably, of cast-iron, galvanized or tinned, the top of it being circular in form and provided with two openings,'a a, and pipe-seats surrounding them, upon which the discharge-pipe B and the chambered pipe B fit, the circumferential rim 90 being formed as shown in Fig. 2, the end :0 making in toward the center, and the end or curved, as shown, forming the throat A, through which the water passes to the interior of the chamber. The screw-bolt g is cast or inserted in the top of the heating-chamber, and serves to secure the tubular heater in place by means of a nut, the bolt passing through the hole g in the heater.

The tubular heater 0 is made in the form shown in Fig. 3, with the projecting portion.

2, and having the depending tubes 0 0. upper surface of this heater is plain, save the studs d and the upturned lip d, which'serve, respectively, when the heater is secured in place in the heating-chamber, to form the space g and to cut off communication of this space with the throat A. The tubes 0 c are only of such length relative to the width of the rim :0 of the heating-chamber that a space, y, is left between them and the bottom of the boiler.

' I have shown the studs 01 for determining the space between the removable tubular heater and the top of the heating-chamber formed on the upper surface of'the tubular heater; but it is obvious that they might be cast on the in-,

ner surface of the heating-chamber, or lugs or other stops might be cast on the inner surface of the rim m m, to serve the same purpose.

The discharge-tape B and the chambered pipe B are united by the pipe I), and are pref erably made of tin, and are made so as to fit snugly over the pipe-seats on the top of the heatingchamber. The upper portion, B, of the discharge-pipe is shown detachable, which is a convenience in packing or storing away when not in use. The chambered pipe being connected with the discharge-pipe, and registering with one of the tubes 0 in the tubular heater, thus applies its force directly to the discharge and greatly increases the size and force of the stream.

The device thus formed, when placed on the bottom of a boiler for boiling clothes, causes a large and effective stream of hot water to flow out of the discharge-pipe over the top of the clothes, and rapid circulation of the whole body of water in the boiler.

Though I have shown the heating-chamber circular in form, it is obvious that it might be made in any other form and not depart from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*- 1. The base or heating-chamber formed with the pipe seats on its upper surface, in combi- The nation with the connected pipes B and B, the pipe B being" closed to form a chamber, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The detachabletubularheater 0, provided with the series of open tubes 0, in combination with the heating-chamber provided with the screw-bolt g, for securing the tubular heater within the chamber, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The tubular heater formed with the lugs 61 and the lip d upon its upper surface, in combination with the heating-chamber having the throat A and the screw-bolt g, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. The tubular heater formed with the projecting portion 2 and the lip d, in combination with the heating-chamber having the throat A and the screw-bolt g, substantially as set forth.

5. The tubular heater 0, with the heatingchamber having the holes a a, which register with two of the tubes in the tubular heater, in combination with the connected pipes B and B, as and for the purposes set forth.

WILLIAM BARTON. Witnesses:

GEO. M. TI'rUs, H. A. WEST. 

